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CONSTRUCTIVISM

Here's a scene I created to illustrate how to use GollyGee Blocks in teaching students about visualizing construction themes. What would be an interesting enhancement to the application would be a grouping function that allows the user to group just what they want. Blocks does allow a parent-child type hierarchial grouping when the magnet feature is on. With a user defined grouping I could have grouped the entire wall, rotated it and put it against the first wall and so forth to make a framed room. Well, the reason we didn't do this is that we would defeat the simplicity of Blocks for younger children. Tradeoffs anyone?

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